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A Prayer about Our Use of Cars Lord of Life, we confess that we are in the habit of using our cars too much and this has had a bad effect on the environment and on our health. Study: A University of Michigan study published in…
Keep Walking Proverb Every day of your life is a page in your history. — Arabic Proverb Practice Recall a treasured memory of a loved one. Sip on it mentally and emotionally. — Joyce Rupp in Praye…
Everything Changes Literary Wisdom Small service is usually true service. — William Wordsworth, nineteenth century English poet
Becoming More Empathetic We certainly can use more empathy in a world where national polls have shown an increase in narcissism (self-interest) and a decline in concern about the well-being of others. In an article in Yes M…
A Prayer for Forgiveness of Our Daily Pollutions Global warming, notes this article by Jon Queally on CommonDreams.org, is making the world hot and dry and also cold and wet. It snowed last week in Jerusalem. China is enduring its coldest winter i…
Meatless Monday Movement The Meatless Monday campaign was started in 2003 by an advertising whiz and the John Hopkins School of Public Health to market dietary change. The idea is to cut out meat one day a week to improve h…
How a Password Changed One Man's Life for the Better In an article on GoodNewsNetwork, Maurico Estrella writes about being in a funk over his divorce. Then, to make matters worse, he arrived at the office to find the monthly directive to change the pa…
My Biological Clock and Life as a Lark One of the many marvels of being human is the large role played by our biological clocks which regulate such activities as blood pressure, metabolic rate, digestion, heart rate, and urinary output. …
A Mini-Map of My Hands You can tell quite a bit about a person's life and personality by looking at their hands. I have often thought but never said aloud that my hands are one of my best features. When we were living in …
A Workshop for Civility The late Vaclav Havel wrote that civility can only come about through the "complex, long-term, and never-ending work involving education and self-education." In this enlightening article from aspen.…